People have been for years, even though the track record of Bill Belichick assistants has been mixed at best.

But with offensive numbers popping and many people thinking that’s the best path to follow to find a head coach, the law of supply and demand will likely work in McDaniels’ favor (despite leaving the Colts at the altar and leaving the Broncos a bit of a mess).

The Patriots are shopping him. This started a couple of weeks ago. This is the third article in that time sourced from someone other than McDaniels or his agent. Its all coming from the Pats side of the relationship. They fed him a line to punk the Colts and now they want out from under the 5M/yr? contract. Notice the article contains a Kraft-like dig at Colts, who seem to be a fine organizartion at this point without anyone from Boston.

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It’s commonplace in most NFL cities to second guess the offensive coordinator on a regular basis. McDaniels rarely comes under criticism for his play calling. He’s very creative and often daring. If something doesn’t work, it’s usually because of poor execution not the play call itself.
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Doubt Josh would’ve left Colts at the altar, and the bad press from that, just to leave again next season. But it shows that the rest of the league’s offices agree with my interpretation that the jilting was to do with an independent medical THAT WEEK reversing Colts’ claims in January that Luck was already fully healed. Indeed indications of its timing suggests it was ordered by Josh.

And all the Colts’ salty noise about Josh (and ludicrous claims of a “rivalry” v Pats when Colts haven’t won this decade) was partly to hide their bungled signing process/annoncement and partly to misdirect attention away from their quietly downgrading Luck from “good to go” in Jan to “turned a corner” in Feb.

Because the Patriots is not a one year wonder team. Other teams want to capture the Patriots Mystique. But the Patriots brain and brawn drain will hobble the Pats in the long run. They nurture their own from the inside and it takes years to form their people into their own specifications. It’s difficult to replace them. This year they lost, given up core players and Matt Patricia. You can see that they are still finding their footing. Surprisingly they are still contending for the top spot. That’s why other teams will poach their coaches and players. Even the cast offs get jobs. The Patriots Mystique and pedigree are compelling.

He deserves a chance to be a HC. Obviously the Pats offered something more appealing than the Dolts. Winning was prolly one of the carrots.

No one should go to the Browns unless it is the last place on earth offering employment. Cincy is one step above the Browns. The Jets have been a mess. I have to imagine the NY power brokers don’t give the coach the authority which he needs. If it isn’t the Packers, then I can’t see him leaving.

“It’s commonplace in most NFL cities to second guess the offensive coordinator on a regular basis. McDaniels rarely comes under criticism for his play calling. He’s very creative and often daring. If something doesn’t work, it’s usually because of poor execution not the play call itself.”

Its true he is creative, daring and very good at morphing the Pats offense week to week to take advantage of the people he has available at any given time.

But its not true he rarely comes under criticism for play calling. The homer press has had plenty of moments when they’ve done so and I’ve long lost count of the times I’ve screamed at the TV WTF was that play call WTH did you do that?